Conjectured growth series of the three-strand braid group with dual generators

Let B3B_3 be the three-strand braid group, let Σ3\Sigma_3^{\scriptstyle *} denote its dual generating set, and let S(B3,Σ3)\mathcal{S}(B_3,\Sigma_3^{\scriptstyle *}) and G(B3,Σ3)\mathcal{G}(B_3,\Sigma_3^{\scriptstyle *}) denote the spherical and geodesic growth series, respectively. The conjectured growth-series formulas. The spherical and geodesic growth series are

S(B3,Σ3)=(t+1)(2t21)(t1)(2t1)2,G(B3,Σ3)=12t32t2+3t1(2t1)(3t1)(4t1).\mathcal{S}(B_3,\Sigma_3^{\scriptstyle *})=\frac{(t+1)(2t^2-1)}{(t-1)(2t-1)^2}, \qquad \mathcal{G}(B_3,\Sigma_3^{\scriptstyle *})=\frac{12t^3-2t^2+3t-1}{(2t-1)(3t-1)(4t-1)}.

These rational expressions are conjectured from finite computational data using Padé approximation; the source gives no proof or resolution, so their status remains open.

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Jean Fromentin, “Experiments on growth series of braid groups”, arXiv:2009.02054 (2021).

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